Sale! Sale! Sale! These magical words could make any woman’s heart skip a beat! After all, shopping is to women what breathing is to life! Hundreds of square feet full of clothes, shoes, perfumes, hand bags, jewellery and cosmetics arouse those senses in a woman which sometimes even a man like Ryan Gosling fails to! Shopping is an art, a technique that comes naturally to the fairer sex. In-fact to fathom the tingling sensation of buying those perfect fitted jeans or to grasp the satisfaction of grabbing those flawless shoes displayed on mannequins, you’ve got to be a woman! The incredible Shopping-Sutra is something that a woman is born as a master of!
While to the naive, shopping might not hold any charm; to us, the blessed few (read women), it is an intricate art. There are nuances to shopping that only a female heart understands and treasures. It’s not easy, if anything it the complete opposite of anything easy!
There is a lot more to shopping than simply walking into a store and picking up a thing. Reconnaissance, the first step of shopping lies in scouting for the best places to shop. It’s anything but cake walk for in the growing crowd of malls and shopping centers finding the haven of everything that warrants lightening the purse, is a challenge. Once that is done comes the next stage which is short listing the items to take to the trail rooms for the all important screen test. Believe me this second step is the toughest more so in a sale as beating the rest of the shopping tribe and grabbing that last piece is a tactic not mastered by all. The last step which is definitely not the least is going to the counter and swiping those cards to emerge proud owners of some of the most beautiful clothes and accessories in the world.
While men might find solace in the arms of whiskey and scotch; women find comfort in the aisles of shopping malls. The sweet smell of clothes on discount or the high of finding the last piece on the shelves is liberating. What drinking world’s most expensive scotch is to men, shopping is to women! What driving world’s best luxury car is to men, shopping is to women! What the blatant joy of cricket is to men, shopping is to women!
I search and search but find you not,
I wait in line to touch you but,
Behind piles and piles I see you lie,
With hopeful eyes I make a try,
To take you in and try you on,
In my wardrobe to adorn,
I take you back in bags galore,
For you are the best I ever wore!
Just hope my wife doesn't come across your post :)She is one of the frontrunners in the shopping arena…:)
Love your style of presentation of the sutra!
Ah! I know of a girl who can take solace in wine but also seems to get a high off shopping 🙂
Good Post Naba. I would also like to touch on one another important point which is a must to be aware of while shopping and that is Discounts. To know if the discounts are genuine and reason for the discount offered helps in making an informed purchase.
I was thinking why women are blamed to be shopaholics… but you said right : The incredible Shopping-Sutra is something that a woman is born as a master of! Nice one…
How true a fact it is! I myself just l<3ve shopping and it's an art which has never failed to elevate my mood to date :).......Nice post.
I once went shopping for my sister at a superstore here and, by my rough estimate, the women's section was thrice the size of the men's section, or as I saw that day, the entire men's section fitted into the women's sweater section..Needless to say I just stood there blinking, with immense new found respect for women shoppers and their innate ability to decide among those innumerable choices 🙂
Loved the post..:-)
Oh how well can I associate with this post! 😛 Loved your writing 🙂
Hi Nabanita,
Ahh, who can argue on that point. The shopping fanaticism of women is legendary and still holds true. I guess, women should keep separate store rooms to store their purchases over the years. The long list keeps adding up. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Lovely post. The lines at the end beautifully sum it up 🙂 🙂
Regards
Jay
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Well I am glad you are confessing to shopping and related joys/vice as the case may be… 🙂
No man will ever understand the joy of picking up a pair of jeans at 50% off.
Oh I agree!
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haha..we should, shouldn't we?
Thanks Richa 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Glad you understand 🙂
Thanks Bushra 🙂
Thanks Ananth 🙂
Thanks Fayaz 🙂
haha Suresh I think I know her too 😀
Oh she already knows whatever there is to know..She is a woman after all 🙂